March 4, 2015James Massola and Dan Harrison
Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivered a thinly veiled rebuke of his former health minister Peter Dutton for his handling of the GP co-payment in cabinet on Monday night.

March 4, 2015Matthew Knott, Lucy Battersby
Cabinet has approved a proposal by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to introduce a two-tiered pricing scheme for letter deliveries that is expected to see basic stamp prices increase to $1.

March 4, 2015Judith Ireland
The Abbott government is looking for fresh ideas to tackle the gender gap in Australian offices, asking the University of Melbourne to devise a Workplace Gender Equality Strategy.

March 4, 2015Michael Gordon
Australian of the Year Rosie Batty is poised to back a call by Labor leader Bill Shorten for a national crisis summit on violence against women to be convened as a matter of urgency.

March 4, 2015David Wroe
An extra 300 Australian troops are being sent to train Iraqis in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, with Tony Abbott refusing to rule out boosting the deployment further.

March 3, 2015Matthew Knott
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared his "ticker is in very good shape" when asked if he has the courage to challenge Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership.

March 3, 2015Matthew Knott
The Abbott government is trying to strike a last-minute compromise deal with Senate crossbenchers on university fee deregulation by proposing the equivalent of a mining "super profits tax" for universities that increase their fees over current levels.

March 3, 2015Heath Aston
The mother of the first Australian to die in battle against Islamic State has spoken of her heartbreak in discovering her son was fighting for the Kurds in Syria at the same time as receiving the devastating news he had been killed on the frontline.